In order to achieve high office in business, government or any other field, you must first have self confidence. It also helps if candidates have a glib tongue and a litany of bragging rights. Bragging rights can be real or perceived by the candidate. In Hillary’s case, one of those carried the impressive appellation of ‘Secretary of State.’ That title of responsibility and power carries with it both achievement and accountability. Her four years of duty is bereft of either achievement or accountability. The Benghazi debacle will soon reach three years of hearings and testimony that has yielded only an eruption of arrogant remarks by Mrs. Clinton.
The Russian Reset, synthetically publicized as a breakthrough in international relations may be noted by historical chroniclers in a footnote or a single sentence in future history books. Vladimir Putin, Russian President (think Czar) has an approval rating among Russians of well over 80%; Mrs. Clinton’s approval rating is less than 50% here in the USA.
Candidate Clinton was one of the most traveled Secretaries of State in history, racking up almost a million miles of air travel in three years that added up to over 2,000 hours in the air; if air mileage is the conclusive factor that places someone in line for White House habitation, let’s comb airline records and find people who have spent much of their life warming airplane seats.
Can anyone actually come up with a measurable achievement of Hillary Clinton with the possible exception of board membership of Wal-Mart from 1986 to 1992 where her presence may have kindled a dull glow? The United States has spiraled downward in financial integrity, international leadership and support, racial and class jealousy, religious freedom, regulation and overall economic prosperity. The next administration, as with all previous administrations will receive obligations assumed by the present administration. A Hillary aggregation has about the same talent for fixing the challenges of this tattered nation as a 57-ton bulldozer has of sailing over nine tour buses at the West Virginia State fair.
Mrs. Clinton’s charismatic speeches and her conduct are quite different. While she rails about the ‘deck being stacked in favor of the rich’, it is notable that she charged The Boys and Girls Clubs of Long Beach, CA $200,000 for a speech on March 3, 2015. She didn’t pause long enough to speak to children who benefit from programs of the organization. Hillary sent the check to the Clinton Foundation without a cent for the Boys and Girls Clubs that has an annual budget of $3 million. Bill (Clinton) spoke to the same group in 2007 for the bargain price of $150,000 and stuck the money in his pocket. By contrast, Condoleezza Rice charged just $60,000 for a speech in 2009 and gave most of the money back to the organization. Ms. Rice arrived early so that she could speak to children being helped by the organization.
Thirty thousand E-mail messages have been destroyed from her personal server located at the Chappaqua, NY residence. Subpoenaed records associated with the Rose Law firm were lost in 1994 but miraculously found on a table in the White House in 1996. The litany of opaque handling of business and government words, letters and dealing is a tawdry journal of deception.
Mrs. Clinton isn’t running for President because she is equal to the job. She is hustling because the Democratic Party has determined that it is ‘her turn.’ She campaigned in 2008 and lost to a J-V politician that orated his way into the candidacy using the mantra of ‘Hope and Change.’ Hillary was rewarded for losing and accepted the position of Secretary of State, a task she was totally unsuited for but accepted with the presumption that she would be next in line for Job One. Do we really want a President by Proxy who will simply verbalize the thoughts of Bill Clinton and other left wingers?
The next President has to be a person for all the people, a pacesetter that respects and upholds the Constitution, and who, like Generals Washington, Lee, Chamberlain, Pershing, Puller, McAuliffe, Marshall and Eisenhower and others who have demonstrated qualities of awe-inspiring leadership.
– Dick Baynton